James laughs off Spoelstra controversy, quotes Randy Moss

After the loss to Boston, LeBron James said — unprovoked — that 44 minutes for him was too much, and 40 minutes was probably too much for Dwyane Wade.

“And Spo knows that,” he added.

I mentioned it in passing on this blog. It sounded more like a statement of fact — and a comment on the process — than a shot at his coach. Naturally, the national media made it out to be the latter.

Today, Spoelstra said he and James had spoken about minutes.

A few minutes later, in the locker room, James chuckled when asked about his “minutes” comment.

“Right, and then it got blown up out of proportion,” James said. “Saying that I told Coach Spo that he is playing me too much and he’s a bad coach. You kind of understand sometimes what Randy Moss is talking about, when he says I will not be answering any more questions. Because every time I say something it gets turned out of character. But it’s a conversation that me and Coach Spo had, and that’s what I was basically saying, that he’s still trying to figure out rotations. That’s what it was all about. And the rotations will be figured out through the course of the year, where I don’t have to play 44 minutes and D-Wade doesn’t have to play 40 minutes. I do think there will be games where we will both have to play high minutes.”